Vehicle-buffer



W. H. MANNING VEHIQLE auF cn. APPLICATION FILED APR. 13, i920-.

1,401,269. Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

, INVENTOR. WHMflNNl/vs ATTORNEY a citizen of the WILLIAM H. MANNING, orsroox VALLEY mownsmg umon COUNTY, IOWA.

VEHICLE-BUFFER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM H. MANNING,

United States, and a resident of Sioux Valley township, in the county ofUnion and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in VehicleButfers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has duction of an improved fender or butter for motorvehicles.

My invention has for a further object the production of a fender orbuffer for a motor vehicle, simple and inexpensive in construc tion andembodying certain noy'el features and characteristics particularlyadapting it for the protection of the rear end of such vehicles.

\Vith theseand other objects in view, the invention, consisting in theconstruction, combination and novel arrangement of parts will be fullyunderstood from the following dcs(.'ription, ret'ercnce being had to theaccompanying drawings which form a part of this application and in whichlike characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views. of? winch,

Figure 1 is a plan of the preferred form of the invention as applied toa vehicle, and

Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modification applied to the vehicle.

Referring now to the,illustrations,3. represents the IIHllIl. frame of amotor vehicle chassis and, 4, the usual wheel tenders or mud guards atthe sides thereof. My device consists essentially of a spring bar having forwardly extending end portions, 5, which are adapted to embracethe outer sides of the frame member, 3, and be secured thereto bylag-bolts, 6, or otherwise. Adjacent the portions 5, the bar is formedwith oppositely disposed laterally extending loops, the sides 7 and 9 ofwhich are dis posed in parallelism and are so formed through a reversebend at 8, that the sides are in spaced relation to each other. Theloops. are so disposed that each side of each loop is in substantiallythe same plane as the corresponding side of the other loop.

In the structure illustrated in'l ig. 2, the intermediate portion, 12 ofthe bar is transversely disposed and is positioned in the same plane asthe loop sides, 9. fie device Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed April 13, 1920. Serial No.

for its object the prois so constructed that the portion, 12, is 0s!-tioned a distance Well in the rear of the ma1n-frame to accommodate theusual spare tire between the main-frame and art, 12; and the loops areextended beyond t e planes of the outer edges of the fenders,4;

f The preferred embodimentv illustrated in Fig. 1, only differs from thestructure above set forth in that the intermediate portion, 10, of thebar is disposed in the rear of the plane of the loop sides, 9, the endortions, ll, of the intermediate portion being bentat an angle forwardlyto cm the loop sides, 9. The preferred form has the advantage that itaffords suflicient space for-two or more spare tires and yetthe rearsides of Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

the loops extend no farther rearwardly than in the first form, andfurthermore. the preferred construction is capable of absorbing moreimpact shock than the previously-described. form, for example, theconcussion of a blow delivered on the intermediate portion of the barpresented in Fig. 2 has-comparw tively little effect on the sides, 7, onthe loop. While in the preferred form, a blow similarl v delivered uponthe bar would be par- .tially absorbed by the portion, 10, and throughthe medium of the forwardly extending parts,11,- a considerable portionof the shock would be imparted to both sides of the loops.

Having thus described my invention what I claim ashew and desire tosecure by .Letters Patent of the United States is,-

A rear fender for a vehicle including its main-frame and wheel-fendersat the sides thereof,consisting of a bar of spring mate rial formed withits end portions extended forwardly and adapted to be secured to thesides of the frame, the portions of the bar adj accnt the said endportions being formed with laterally-extending U-shaped- 100 s havingparallel arms, and extended in t re rear of and to the line of the outerwheel fender edges. and the portions of the bar adjacent the said loo )sbeing bent rearwardly coincident wit1 the planes of theforwardly-extended end portions, to space the intermediate portion ofthe bar a rnstance in the rear of the plane of the rear

